a moment is all you can expect from perfection

My advice would be, to aspiring musicians is to find a way to do what you love to do, because then if you find a way to do what you love to do, then it doesn’t really matter if you get paid to do it. Then you can have your whole life wrapped around it and work in a coffee shop, you know?

And then if you’re lucky, maybe you can make a living at it. And then if you’re lucky, and you work hard maybe you can make a lot of money doing it. But if that’s your goal, then you really shouldn’t do it.

If your goal is money and fame, there’s a lot easier ways to do it. Go on Fear Factor if you want money.

If you want to play music, all you’ve got to do is play it.

—Dave Matthews, “Before the Music Dies” (via robsintherain)

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

—Carlos Castaneda (via larmoyante)

A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.

—Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope (via vanished)